NIFT Counselling 2025: Registration DATE, Eligibility, Fees, Seat Allotment Process

The allotment of seats will be based on: 

1. Choice opted at the time of counseling registration (academic programs + campuses)
2. The category of the candidate
3. Seat intake in the college opted for admission
4. NIFT 2025 merit rank of the candidate. 

NIFT 2025 seat allotment process will be conducted in four regular and one spot rounds.

The 1st round of seat allotment will be declared around the 3rd week of June 2025. .

The counseling registration will be conducted in May 2025. 

The NIFTs are considered among the best design colleges in the country. As per most of the educational institutions' rankings, the NIFTs frequently rank among the top 10.

The names of the top 5 NIFT Colleges are:

Name of the Institute	India Today Ranking 2024	India Today 2023 Ranking	India Today 2022 Ranking	India Today 2021 Ranking
NIFT Delhi	1	1	1	1
NIFT Mumbai	2	2	2	2
NIFT Bangalore	3	3	3	3
NIFT Hyderabad	4	5	7	7
NIFT Chennai	5	4	4	4
NIFT Gandhinagar	6	6	5	6
NIFT Patna	8	7	6	5

 

NIFT Counselling Process has the following steps:

1. Registration and Choice filling by the candidates
2. Uploading of documents
3. Paying the Seat Acceptance Fee
4. Document Verification
5. Receiving of Allotment Letter.

There are generally five rounds in the NIFT Counselling. NIFT typically conducts multiple rounds of counselling depending on seat availability. If seats remain vacant after initial rounds, spot counselling may also be announced.

To register for NIFT 2025 counseling, the candidate had to pay a registration fee of INR 9,300. 

However, the candidate is not required to pay any fee to select preferences. 

The candidate will have to pay a seat-acceptance fee of INR 1,83,200 only if he or she has been allocated a seat. The seat-acceptance fee has to be paid online before the given deadline. Note that if the payment is not done within the given deadline, then the allocated seat will be cancelled and will be allocated to the next candidate in the order of merit.

The seat allotment for NIFT 2025 will be based on the merit rank of the candidate and preference opted during counseling registration.

Seat Withdrawal Policy:

The candidate who are allotted seats between Round 1 and 4 will be able to withdraw their seats.

If the candidate withdraws their seats, only the security deposit will be refunded.

There is no withdrawal option for the SPOT round.

The National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT) conducted NIFT 2024 seat allotment for SPOT Round on July 27, 2024.

The seat allotment for the fourth round was announced on July 17, 2024.

Candidates who were not happy with the allotted seat or simply wanted to withdraw their seats could withdraw their seats by July 19 (midnight). 

To withdraw their seats, the candidate had to follow these steps:

1. Go to the NIFT admission portal
2. Log in to the portal
3. If will see an option for seat withdrawal.
4. Click on the option and confirm the withdrawal process 
5. Once the withdrawal is confirmed, the allotted seat will get cancelled. 
6. Note that if you withdraw from the admission process, you will not be considered for seat allotment in subsequent rounds. Also, once the withdrawal process is complete, the seat acceptance fee will be refunded to you.

The NIFT 2025 Counselling 2025 will begin tentatively in the last week of June or in first week of July, once the NIFT Final results are declared. 

The candidate will need the following documents to participate in the NIFT counselling process: Class 12/ degree mark sheet and certificate. Further, if the candidate is seeking admission to the PG course, then the candidate will also have to upload mark sheets and certificates of the qualifying degree examination.

In case of candidates who have appeared for the qualifying exam/ compartment (of final year/semester) and the result is due need to upload the date sheet /admit card for the examination. Other documents required are a Birth certificate, Category certificate, Medical fitness certificate, signed by a Registered Medical Practitioner in the prescribed format in original.

There are 19 NIFTs that will accept NIFT 2025 Scores for admission purposes. These institutes are known as participating colleges.

However, in addition to the participating colleges, there are other private colleges that will also consider NIFT 2025 scores for admission to their UG and PG design courses. The candidates are urged to go through the list of result-sharing institutes.

The National Institite of Design (NID) will release the answer sheets of the candidate after the declaration of the FINAL results. Further, the answer sheets will only be available on request, only after the admission process is complete.

The answer sheet is not be issued during the admission process.

To request the answer sheet for the admission cycle 2025-26, the candidate has to make a payment of INR 1000 online/ per exam. The candidate will also have to furnish the NID DAT 2025 admit card duly signed by the invigilator and seal of the exam center with the request. 

The answer sheet will be sent to the candidate within 15-20 days after receiving the payment.

The National Institute of Design will, however, not release any answer keys for the DAT Prelims exam.

Yes, a non-refundable registration fee is applicable during the counselling process. The amount and payment details will be mentioned in the official counselling notification.

The, cut-off of NIFT for the various academic courses is not fixed. This is because the cut-off depends on variables like seat intake, the performance of applicants in the NIFT exam, total number of applications received for admission, etc. Now these variables may change from year to year. For instance, the number of candidates appearing in NIFT and qualifying the exam may be different across the years. And when that happens, the cut-off also changes. Typically, if the seat intake increases, the cut-off goes down and vice versa. Likewise, if the number of applicants increases, expect a higher cut-off.

The category-wise cut-off for the Accessory Design programme for NIFT Bangalore campus is given below:

Note that reserved category candidates will be considered for admission to both their reserved and open categories.

NIFT Delhi is frequently ranked among the top design colleges in the country. So, the admission cut-off for the institute is pretty high, especially when compared to the lower ranked colleges. This is because being a higher ranked college, NIFT Delhi receives a higher number of applicants. Another factor is more number of higher ranked candidates want to get admission in the institute, which also pushes up the cut-off. On the other hand, lower ranked colleges are not a priority for the top ranked candidates; meaning a higher number of lower ranked candidates applies to these institutes. This keeps the cut-off low in these institutes.

No, the NTA will not conduct the counseling for NIFT 2025. Its role is limited only to the conduct of the NIFT 2025 written exam and declaration of results.

The NIFT 2025 counseling process is being conducted by the National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT). 

Candidates who qualify in the NIFT 2025 exam have to register for counseling through the NIFT admission portal - nift.ac.in/admission. The counseling registration link is currently being activated.

Visiting the page to register for NIFT 2025 counseling.

Note that as part of the counseling registration process, you need to fill in and lock choices. The seat allotment will be done post document verification after considering factors like merit rank and choices opted.

The National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT) will release the seat allotment of NIFT 2025 for Round I around the 3rd week of June 2025.

The seat allotment will be based on the merit rank of candidates and academic option picked at the time of counseling registration. 

Such candidates who are allotted seats have to submit willingness and pay the admission fee by the given deadline.

Note that NIFT 2025 counseling will be conducted in four regular and one spot rounds. The admission fee amount for regular seats at all campuses is INR 1,83,000.

NRI Sponsored candidates need to pay INR 6,88, 4000 or INR 9,72,000 depending on the campus they have been allocated.

The National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT) will release the schedule and complete details of NIFT 2025 counseling after final results are declared.

NIFT counseling will be conducted in four regular and one spot rounds.

Note that seats that are left vacant will be offered in the SPOT round.

The counseling registration process will be OPEN from the 1st week of June 2025. The candidate can check their eligibility for counseling by logging into the result portal. 

 

The NIFTs are ranked among the top design colleges in India. As per India Today 2023 rankings for top fashion design colleges in India, the top 8 positions were occupied by NIFTs. In India Today 2022 rankings as well, the top eight positions were occupied by the NIFTs. NIFT Delhi was the number one ranked college, followed by NIFT Mumbai and NIFT Bangalore, in 2nd and 3rd positions. Speaking of placements at NIFT, candidates passing out of NIFT Delhi on average earns INR 5.5 LPA. Meanwhile, candidates passing out of NIFT Kolkata earns about INR 5.7 LPA. In comparison, NIFT Bengaluru pass outs can expect an average salary of INR 3 Lacs LPA.

In NIFT counselling process, documents of candidates are verified and they are offered a seat for admission in a specific course and college depending on their NIFT rank. As part of the NIFT counselling process, candidates need to get registered and enter preferences of academic programme. Academic programme in this sense means selection of the academic course and NIFT; entries should be in the order of priority. The counseling process for NIFT 2024 is being held online as a centralized seat-allotment process. The allotment of seats will be based on NIFT 2024 merit rank and college/ course picked at the time of registration. Post seat allotment, candidates need to pay the seat-acceptance fees.

The B. Des programme has an intake capacity of 2,884 seats for All-India candidates.

In addition, there are 300 state-domicile.

Admission to the B. Des programme at NIFTs will be based on performance of the candidate in GAT CAT and Situation Test. Candidates are shortlisted for the Situation Test based on their performance in the written exams. The B. Des programme offers specialisation in Fashion Design (FD), Leather Design (LD), Accessory Design (AD), Textile Design (TD), Knitwear Design (KD), and Fashion Communication (FC). The candidate will be able to select their programme of study at the time of counseling and seat allotment.

In case of the B. Des and B.FTech programmes, the candidates should be less than 24 years as on July 1 of the admission year. There is relaxation of 5 years for candidates belonging to SC, ST, and PwD categories. However, there is no age limit for applying to the postgraduate programmes at NIFT. When applying for admission to design courses at the NIFTs, the candidate must also carefully go through the academic requirements. Note that even if a candidate qualifies the NIFT Entrance Exam but doesn't meet the prescribed eligibility criteria, he or she will not be considered for admission.